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Doctor Who sidewalk graffiti in Hayes Valley
At the corner of Rose and Octavia, someone painted “Bad Wolf…” underneath the street imprint in the sidewalk. I thought that was pretty funny and snapped the above photo. Spoilers for old Doctor Who episodes follow. “Bad Wolf” was a storyline from the first season of the rebooted Doctor Who back in 2005. Throughout the…
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First impressions of the new Muni Metro trains
This evening I’d planned to take Muni Metro home from work as I often do, but there was an unexpected twist: as I got to the platform level, one of the new trains was pulling in. Finally I’d get to ride one! Unfortunately for me it was going in the opposite direction I was headed,…
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Carnaval San Francisco 2018 parade
For a bunch more photos check out my Carnaval 2018 album here. Today was the grand parade of Carnaval San Francisco, the Mission District’s biggest parade and cultural event. It was billed as the 40th Anniversary, which isn’t exactly true… but forget it. Sometimes you just have to put down your calculator, pick up a…
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One man’s trash is another man’s toilet
While on my way to run an errand after the Carnaval Parade wrapped up — more on that later — I spotted a humorously placed toilet seat on a public garbage can at 16th Street and Guerrero. The juxtaposition is so perfect, I’d come up with the title of this blog post before I even…
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Salesforce Tower light show allegedly launched
Today was the grand opening of Salesforce Tower, and with it the alleged launch of a massive 11,000 LED light show on the top of the building. As you can see in my photo above taken from Dolores Park, it was so foggy I’m not even sure which building is which. None of them seem…
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Robot barista cafe expands to second location
A while back I visited Cafe X in San Francisco’s Metreon only to find its robot barista charged me for health care. I thought for sure the novelty would wear off quickly, but it seems every time I’m at the Metreon there’s still a bunch of people gawking at the robot arm shuffling cups around.…
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Just some parrots chilling on 16th Street
While heading down 16th Street earlier this evening I spotted some parrots; not the wild variety you find on Telegraph Hill but rather the domestic variety. A man eating at Pakwan on 16th Street brought along a few pet parrots. While two of them sat on a tree branch attached to a bicycle (pictured) a…
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Barcelona
In the very first post in this blog, I justified its creation by stating that I had some things to talk about, or “In other words, no vacation slides” as I said at the time. Realistically I wanted to start a blog to talk about my fascination with a local immersive art installation known as…
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A robot served ice cream at Bi-Rite Creamery
Yesterday just before 7 PM I got an unexpected series of texts from a friend: I got ice cream from a robotI’m at 18th and Dolores. There’s a robot hereBi-Rite Creamery Intrigued, I texted back letting her know I was on the way; what sort of maniac could say no to watching a robot serve…
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